In the words of the citation, which is the sportsperson "whose actions have most captured the public's imagination"? We will confine discussion to those six.

Murray is the man to beat. His two biggest wins – Wmbldn and the season-ending championships – were on the BBC, and it's clear that he's producing superlative athletic performances, week in week out. He's held back because he won this title in 2013, and again in 2015.

Farah and Adams are also unbeaten in their seasons, and neither has won the award before. Both have public profiles, and evidence to say they've inspired others to take up their sport.

Crucially, all three have the media on side. BBC coverage of tennis and athletics, the dead-tree press has an obsession with boxing that Adams can use. Peaty, Storey, Whitlock all suffer from how the media ignore their sports for most of the year.

The second half-hour was rambling: they've got a big name who wants to promote something, three big egos "interviewing" him, and the whole segment came across as a disjointed and quite painful mess.

They'd been ramping up the big announcement, made the big announcement, and in the next link they forget about it. Signal to the listener – that's done, we've moved on, nothing more to hear here. If they wanted to keep momentum going, recap the news, throw in some of the stats they've prepared, and then throw forward to the interview in ten minutes.

The music side appeals greatly: these six records were a bit more modern than overnights, still explore the station's depth. The news was enough for a pop station, we felt sufficiently set up for the day. But the presentation wasn't actually much good. We can't grade this above C+.

Ash Sarkar and Zoe Gardner provided a one-two speech on how borders are futile. That was worth the price of admission. Owen Jones spoke with his usual passion, his usual eloquence, and his usual complete lack of substance.

Lots of politicians gave lots of speeches, long on bluster and anger, lacking in concrete ideas.

It became clear that the meeting was to plot for a socialist nirvana. This blog would rather take tactical steps towards a broad consensus goal, and shift that goal by small and imperceptible increments. The strategy worked well for the isolationists.

Cursed Child. What's it like for people who don't know much about the Harry Potter canon? We'll answer that question. We'll also give some sizable spoilers, so if you don't want to know anything about the production, look away now.

Cursed Child is a "short" story by Jack Thorne. Like any number of fan fictions, it draws on the characters created by JK Rowling. Unlike any other fan fiction, it has been written with input from Rowling.

The story claims to be short. This is not true. It is, in fact, very long. You might think it's a long way to the end of the universe, but that's naught compared to the length of Cursed Child. Across its various parts, the play runs for over five hours.

As we see it, "More Utd" asks candidates to support some milquetoast ideas. Nothing on the sample policy lineup is going to trouble a Sensible candidate from any tradition. Indeed, we can almost say that any candidate supporting these principles is a Sensible candidate, and anyone opposing them is a Silly candidate.

Let's be prepared to reach out and play a role in building the common ground, instead of standing on the sidelines and complaining that we weren’t included when someone else builds it without us. The old ways of doing politics are dying all around us, and we need to have the courage to try and shape the new.

Stand about while other people speak for us? Down that road lies an unrepresentative group, Labour's problems.

The barrier to entry is low, and the possible gains are great. So this blog's supporting the group, in a nebulous "we support this group" way.

Reflecting on Danny Finkelstein's claims that It was simply right to ask people whether they assented and This was a reasonable way to make a difficult decision and A referendum is the right way to decide a narrow constitutional question, but not to determine broader national policy.

The final set of points.
"I make no apology for expressing anger, lamentation and naming sin as sin where I see it."
"The nation state is not natural, it's not inevitable."
"Cameron knew his background. Even before it was fashionable, Cameron would check his privilege."